Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62437 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6659
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We exploit exogenous variation in college completion induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates imply that increasing college completion rates from the level of the state with the lowest induced rate to the highest would decrease cumulative mortality by 28 percent relative to the mean. Most of the reduction in mortality is from deaths due to cancer and heart disease. We also explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the Census, ACS, and NHIS.
Subjects: 
health
college education
JEL: 
I12
I23
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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